You know, Dan Rather’s has really said some outrageous and stupid things over the years. I’ve never seen all of them gathered together in one place like this before. It’s one thing if Rather wants to talk about his political views as a private individual on his own time. That”s his right, and it’d make it easy for everyone else to detect any potential unconcious bias that might creep into his job.
But for an allegedly neutral journalist (as Rather presents himself to be) to use his anchordesk to blatantly editorialize about the issues he’s reporting is just ridiculous. It cheapens the whole profession, and it leads directly to journalistic miscarriages like the aptly named Rathergate. After years of abuse it’s amazing, and sad, that the man still has his job.
via PowerLine
Yeah I’ve noticed that too.
I don’t care if you’re liberal, conservative, or a communist, if you’re a journalist you shouldn’t be injecting your feelings into broadcasts. That’s why I try to get most of my news from BBC where I can.
“bbc 1
bbc 2
bbc 3
bbc 4
bbc 5
bbc 6
bbc 7
bbc Heaven”
–Austin Powers
“Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”
Nice…
Only the ones in power.
One thing that’s nice about satellite is the news channels that are typically not picked up on cabletv.
I get the typical broadcast/fox/msnbc/cnn along with several others.
News World International, which is out of Canada carries news feeds from Japan, Germany and China. NWI also broadcast from England and Australia, along with local Canadian news.
LinkTV carries ‘Mosaic’ which takes clips from various news outlets in the Middle East and puts them together. Each clip is about five minutes in length focusing on one story.
Pretty interesting when they all focus on one story, you see what bias’s are at play between the different countries.
LinkTV also carries ‘Democracy Now!’ which is definitely a left leaning news/talk program.
CCTV-9 which is the Chinese News station in English. I would assume it is ‘state run’.
I forgot about BBC World News on BBCA. Although I do end up on BBCA on Thursdays for Trailer Park Boys, so funny.
On mike’s rather quote:
On that particular topic, I do think that we need to be careful about democracy. I think countries will gravitate towards it (ie Iraq), but that it will also be hued by their culture.
We shouldn’t be suprised when the iraqi congress doesn’t resemble ours, but representative democracies come in many flavors.